We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.